Thursday, October 10, 2019

Game Time: Meet the creator of Dennis The Menace (To Tell The Truth, 1962)

Hank Ketchum, the creator of Dennis The Menace, was invited to appear on To Tell The Truth in May 1962, becoming the latest cartoonist, after Dr. Seuss and Chester Gould, to appear on the show. Host Bud Collyer and panelists Tom Poston, Sally Ann Howes, Johnny Carson, and Betty Furness have to sort it all out in the first game.....



Five months later, of course, Carson would take over Tonight on NBC, beginning a 30 year run. I wonder, though, if Poston had ever tried doing drama. He correctly identified Ketchum, as did Carson, and all those years as a panelist could've set him up to at least try a detective movie, either comedy or drama.

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